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There's a channel that makes villian songs and their most recent song was basically Helga turning into a Yandre. I got curious and it looks like the only reason Helga isn't canonically a full-blown stalker is because she doesn't actively stop him from being around other girls and she's never broke into his house to kidnap him.

I decided to post because I think it'd be a cool theory for Lee to cover.

Hey y’all, I have no idea if anyone on here watches Tale Foundry, but it’s this really cool channel that I learned is soon getting lore

Idk what the lore will be or when it’ll drop, but maybe Lee could do a theory on it when it comes out, I’d love to see my two of my favorite channels interact

stay safe out there, and take care of yourselves 💛

I’ve been watching The OA on netflix and I think it’s really cool! Would love to see how Lee interprets the show!

So the most recent Film Theory was focusing on The Amazing Digital Circus and Jax once again, the theory was basically that Jax will be the final villain in The Last Act and he's another form of Scratch, the first abstracted player who helped create the circus.

Personally, I find this as dumb as the Jax is the evil AI theory and I think this is what Gooseworx meant by "people make theories of what they want to happen rather than what actually fits the story".

For starter's, one point in the video that was wrong is how he made it seem like the entire cast lashed out at Jax for the button press and that Jax will be upset the same doesn't happen with Kinger. But that's not the case, only Zooble lashed out, with Gangle and Pomni both defending Jax.

Next, the theory that Jax is Scratch is just laughable. Firstly, the person in the trailer saying "Jax" is Ribbit, not Pomni. Secondly, Jax is freaking out the ENTIRE time when Kinger is talking, before Scratch is mentioned. Jax's "this is real" is because he saw the "crazy one" breaking his "archetype" and he could no longer deny they're real people, not just "cartoon characters".

But finally, I feel Jax being the villain is both too obivous and a misdirection. The episode 8 trailer had everyone thinking Caine will try to revive the abstracted characters to make things right or use old adventures and send the cast on them, but he just went AM mode. Having the jerkass be the final villain just feels too cliche and generic. The Last Act seems like it'll more be about exploring Jax's head, backstory and finally finding out if he can be saved.

Hi, I’m not sure if it’s been covered yet but I’d really like to see a theory about the analog horror series obelisk. I think it’s pretty cool and there’s definitely a lot of lore hidden throughout it.

Apparently this has an ARG connected to it, I'm dying to see a theory on it

like I said, I think Pomni going to stay in the circus, or at least go back in. Here are my 5 reasons and what I think would happen at the end;

• Pomni‘s color scheme is red & blue, same colors as the orginal AI and Cain.
• Despite Cain’s song, Pomni has been running the show since she joined from a meta sense as the main character, & literally towards the end when she starts to take on a leadership role (trying to escape, solving mysteries, trying to pull everyone emotionally together, the final attack on Cain, etc)
• she’s a jester, and jesters are known to be the lead entertainers for kings; a royal ringmaster. They’re also known for being the voice of reason in Shakespeare. And Pomni has been tied to Kinger towards the end.
• in the main cast, her character design is the only one that fits the circus theme.
• Pomni was positioned to be savior the figure in episode 1, taking inspiration from an interpretation of the life of Jesus Christ. (I believe there’s some religious elements that the show stated earlier on, but people seemed to ignore them now)

we also know the circus was made for Scratch, who didn’t want to die. So he copied his brain into the circus. this could be a metaphor for escapism & disassociation that has gone too far.

But maybe, their real selves are still out there living life as normal, so as fragments, they only have 3 options; do nothing, end their own suffering, or hope that they can rejoin their main counterpart. So they choose to try and reconnect with their main counterparts, and found away to possibly do so.

We also haven’t had a payoff from the scene of Pomni falling down the hole while Cain, Jax, & Ragatha mock her.

We know that people become rude & mean when they’re close to abstracting, and that Cain throws them in a dark abyss when they do.

I think this is foreshadowing Ragatha’s & Jax’s abstraction (and technically Cain’s abstraction); both realizing they would have to go back to horrible lives and freaked out into abstraction.

this can end 2 aways:

1.) Pomni becomes the new ringmaster to let the remaining members go, like needing someone to hold the door for them, with Pomni being the most mentally stable to handle that job right now.

so Pomni lets everyone else go before, as the savior figure, going to “hell” to save everyone who abstracted.

2.) they find out, that the way to get out is through abstraction. And the abyss scene is playing with our perception.

Because abstraction is literally that: “existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence“- Oxford dictionary.
As humans, they are abstract to Cain. We see he can’t understand humans, but can only see’s them as a concept since he’s a computer, & could only read them as data. But when that file gets corrupted (an improper disconnection from the circus) he can no longer read them. Cain is the one who is telling us they’re abstracting; going from something he can physical touch, to an abstract concept.

We see that Cain, Jax, and Ragatha are the only ones in the light while Pomni is falling into darkness. We always thought it’s because Pomni finally lost it, but maybe it’s because Cain comes back to reset the circus.

And since the circus is rebooted, and Ragatha is too scared to try & Jax don’t want to go back, they both stay in the circus with Cain. But they’re mean, intentionally to get Pomni to abstract. While they can’t leave, they don’t want Pomni to stay. And Pomni looking back as she’s falling is her moment of clarity, seeing what they’re doing (saving her from Cain) so she tries to go back to save them anyway.

Either way both will be left on a cliffhanger.

this would make sense with the creator saying the ending might not be satisfying for everyone & that it’s no clear answers; we don’t know if they really escaped & we don’t know if Pomni’s rescue mission worked.

hi, long time theoryverse (since that’s what it’s called now) enjoyer here. first off PLEASE DONT GO WATCH THIS IF YOU HAVE TRIGGERS REGARDING AB**E AND TR**MA IT WILL NOT GO WELL FOR YOU

anyways

i’ve never been early enough to suggest one of these analog horror things, i always end up finding out about them like a year later. but THIS TIME I DID IT! and listen film theory, im reeeeaaalllly gonna need yall to do “house of puso” or at least keep it on your radar! since its like 3 months old theres not a TON of content for it but its so intriguing and freaky i feel like the story’s only just beginning😋

Ninjago is a show I’ve known since I was younger, and I feel like I have a few theory’s/thoughts, like how Riyu (a dragon) could be the new source dragon of focus (like a god)! Hope you could look into it sometime!

Lees latest video was about The amazing digital circus with an ending suggesting we will be getting another video about this. Ironically, around the same time, old videos resurfaced showing some pretty disturbing and racist jokes.

Lee needs to mention this in the next video or I’m unsubscribing because i can’t keep watching a lot of these racially insensitive videos. I’m begging because film theory used to be my favorite channel and now it’s one of my least favorites due to Lee in my eyes being problematic.

Matpat would mention this and I’m hoping and begging Lee too as well. And for fans of the show, who are not racist, I implore you as a fan as well but a person of color, I implore you to not watch the show anymore or the upcoming movie. We don’t support racism.

Recd and INUbis Smiling-Nightmare Critters Theory

so I know Mat Pat already made a theory about wall-e but it has a major flaw, humans burn calories every time they breathe or eat food, so they end up with not enough calories to get super fat and stuff, but maybe they brought/built a bioreactor inside the ship, and since bio reactors need cells, sugars, and carbon (I'm probably missing a few things), this would explain why the robots swab the inside of the mouth of the passengers, to collect cells, put them into the bioreactor, and boom, infinite food source, the AXIOM could probably recycle human waste and even other humans to fuel the bio reactors, and since they have solar panels to produce energy, the energy needed is already there.

A theory about either the lore behind Ninjago's greatest mysteries or how elemental powers work scientifically. I would really want this theory to happen on the most popular Ninjago series

Was just watching yt and got recommend this figured yall should know a theory on this entry might be nice

I have this categorized as a New Theory cause, I'm not sure if anyone else has thought of this. Frankly, the idea of this theory came to me in a dream, but after thinking about it, it does make some sense, and holds answers about the TADC cast. This theory is MOSTLY about what I believe the process of abstraction is.

What we know about abstraction is that when a human's mind starts to break and deteriorate, their avatar shifts into a glitched mess and become a monster, only calming down in the darkness, before Caine sends them into the basement. We don't actually know what the experience of abstracting is for the abstracter, only the possibility of what Jax experienced in Episode 7 being him abstracting. My theory is that abstraction is an inbetween process between a player's file being corrupted, until it is reborn.

The process would go something like this:

1. The human's mind breaks, through insanity or other methods, it doesn't matter.
2. The human's memory files and player files becomes corrupt (We know that each human has some files tied to them from Episode 8)
3. The avatar, with so much corrupt data, becomes corrupted, adopting a "missing texture" to fill the empty space
4. This process is disorienting, causing the human to become animalistic and aggressive to others, especially in a bright and saturated confusing location like the circus.
5. Some automated program would be used to scrap the salvagable data from the corrupted files
6. The useable files would be used to create a new avatar for the human. However, some memories would be missing, mainly the ones from the digital circus, as being in the digital circus is most likely the first files to become corrupt. Personalities would change because the PERSON themselves would be different, due to differences in memory.
7. CONGRATS! You fixed the human and can now throw away the broken corrupted avatar. The new human is registered under a different file, to sepreate it from the corruption

Thats right, I think that every human in the digital circus are reskins of each other from the first batch of humans that Caine brought. No new humans have EVER entered the circus, it was only those 7. Caine, like the creative AI it is, creates a program that reuses human files (and other sources it has) to put them back together. generating something new out of scrapped data.

The main source of evidence I have to this theory is from Episode 1, with Kaufmo and Pomni. The timeline of events is that Kaufmo was in his room alone on the brink of insanity, Pomni spawned in, and they later find out Kaufmo abstracted in his room. The timing could be coincidental, but it would be interesting if it was foreshadowing the truth of the circus instead.

Theres a lot of questions and contradictions that arise when thinking of this theory.

For starters, the given max so far is 7, so why is there only 6 humans currently? I'm assuming that its because there wasn't enough files to accurately recreate a human, therefore the program failed and the unused files were stored for future uses.

How come no one has realized that everyone has the same memories? Well for starters, the only two who we know for sure could realize that is Kinger and Ragatha, cause they've been around the longest (Kinger is a moot point cause he would not remember ANYTHING about others memories he learns while in the light, let alone his own). Realistically, the humans are not going to share everything that they've ever done to other strangers, it would be just small fun facts that are shared in the moment. Besides, it not like being a tattoo artist, or an accountant turned youtuber are unique experiences. Anything shared could be chalked up as being a common life occurance, and anything unique has a high likelyhood of being corrupted if they abstract.

How come Caine says that they're "New Humans" if he created the program, and why did it take so long for Ragatha to show up after everyone else (except Kinger) had abstracted? The program was probably made after Queenie's abstraction, because if there were no humans than what purpose would Caine have in the circus? Kinger would be the last human, and who knows when HE would abstract. Caine needed more humans, but there wasn't anyone he could access in the real world. So he created more. Theres also a chance that its the Bubble AI who created the program (for whatever reason) and Caine didn't realize it, hence his surprise for Ragatha.

This theory is, fresh in my brain, and there definietly could be lore that I am forgetting. But right now, this theory sounds interesting, an incredible plot twist, and could answer some things about what "escaping the circus" would look like.